Author:
Greve, Bent.
Imprint:Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2012.
Description133 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Note:1.Introduction -- Why a book on happiness? -- Is happiness always the same? -- Different approaches to happiness -- Outline of the book -- 2.What is happiness? -- Introduction -- The good society and happiness -- What is happiness? -- Happiness and welfare -- Summing up -- 3.Can we measure happiness? -- Introduction -- Can we measure happiness? -- Happiness: a few empirical examples -- Summing up -- Appendix: information on the European Social Survey -- 4.Happiness and public policy: any connection? -- Introduction -- Happiness and income -- Happiness, social relations and other important elements -- Happiness and the labour market -- Happiness and health -- Happiness and societal development -- Summing up -- 5.Why we need a new measurement of welfare -- Introduction -- Why is GDP not sufficient? -- Other elements to be included in the analysis -- New measure of societal development -- Summing up -- 6.Conclusions -- Introduction -- What do we know? -- What do we need to know more about? -- Summing up.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:"Although happiness is based upon individuals' subjective perception of their own situation, understanding the concept of happiness is important for forming policies in modern societies. Taking into account discussions from disciplines across the social sciences, this book explores varying notions of happiness and how these are applied to create a theoretical understanding of the concept. The book then goes on to demonstrate how a general theoretical concept of happiness can be used to add to our knowledge of central aspects of modern society, ranging from questions related to welfare state analysis, through to evaluating everyday life for individual people. In doing so, Happiness presents an up-to-date and applied account of how happiness is now widely used in economics, sociology, psychology and political science, whilst also exploring the relationship between happiness and public policy"-- Provided by publisher.
